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Seattle is very close to approving backyard cottages on all SFH-zoned properties [1]. They're also very close to approving a pretty major city-wide upzone [2],
by seattle_spring 7y ago
Seattle is very close to approving backyard cottages on all SFH-zoned properties [1].
They're also very close to approving a pretty major city-wide upzone [2], though it largely just makes mutli-family zoning denser and doesn't affect SFH zones much.
[1] https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/5/13/18619101/adu-dadu-backyard-cottage-law https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/5/13/18619101/adu-dadu-backy...
[2] https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/2/26/18240535/mha-hala-zoning-citywide-upzones https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/2/26/18240535/mha-hala-zonin...
(* No affiliation with Curbed, they were just the first articles to pop up on my search that weren't paywalled).
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoADUs are great and MHA is fine, but both of these packages literally took years to pass. The city council needs to move faster.
- closetohome 7y agoQuite a few of this year's candidates are proposing eliminating single-family zoning entirely. It could be on the agenda during the next couple of years.
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoIt's great to see this! But they need to make it through the primaries and then win in the general, and this is not an insignificant lift.